Religion, literature and the imagination : sacred worlds /

The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words...

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Other Authors: Knight, Mark, 1972-, Lee, Louise
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mark Knight and Louise Lee
  • Notes toward a supreme addiction : the theology fiction of William Blake and Philip K. Dick / Geoffrey Hartman
  • God's little mountains : young Geoffrey Hill and the problem of religious poetry / Kevin Hart
  • Religion, truth and the 'new aestheticism' / Robert Eaglestone
  • The deconstruction of Christianity : from the hand of God to the hand of man / Arthur Bradley
  • Deity in dispatches : the Crimean beginnings of muscular Christianity / Louise Lee
  • Israel Zangwill, Jewish identity and visceral religion / Jo Carruthers
  • I am not Walter Benjamin / John Schad
  • 'The oldest dream of all' : heaven in contemporary fiction / Andrew Tate
  • DeQuincey's uses of the Bible : Biblical time and psychological time / Jonathan Roberts
  • Re-imagining Biblical exegesis / Christopher Rowland
  • Saving literary criticism / Mark Knight and Emma Mason.